160 NOCTUID^. 



bars ; togaloe blackish at tips ; pectus white slightly tinged with 

 brown ; legs white irrorated with blackish, the tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen fulvous yellow, the ventral surface 

 white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing pale greenish grey irro- 

 rated with dark red-brown, the medial area with diffused dark brown 

 shade; subbasal line black, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 anteraedial line double filled in with whitish, the inner line slight, 

 the outer strong, black, oblique, sinuous, escurved in submedian 

 interspace ; reniform faintly defined by blackish ; a round white 

 spot defined by black below end of cell; postmedial line black, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, acutely angled outwards above 

 and below vein 5, then incurved and minutely waved, angled in- 

 Avards at submedian fold and wich black streak on it to near ante- 

 medial line ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined on each side 

 by fuscous, minutely waved, obliquely incurved to below vein 7 

 where it is met by an oblique dark shade from termen below apes; 

 a series of black points before termen slightly defined on outer 

 side by whitish. Hind wing golden yellow ; some brown suffusion 

 in submedian interspace to the rather narrow obliquely curved 

 me lial black band from costa to just above inner margin ; terminal 

 area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge incurved at veins 2 

 and 1 ; the termen narrowl}^ yellow towards apex, then with slight 

 yellow marks in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia yellowish white, 

 chequered with brown between veins 6 and 2. Underside of fore 

 wing white, the inner area yellow to the medial band, a brownish 

 anteniedial shade from costa to submedian fold, an oblique black 

 medial band narrowing to inner margin, terminal area black, its 

 inner edge curved, cilia chequered blackish and white ; hind wing- 

 as above but the postmedial area whitish to discal fold. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, 3 d" , 2 §, Ussuri ; Japan, Yezo 

 {Fryer), 3 J, 1 $, Hakodate {Leech), 1 J , 1 5, Yokohama 

 {Jonas, Manley), 1 c? , 2 § type, Oiwakd {Pryer), 1 c? ; W. China, 

 Wa-shan {Pratt), 1 $ , Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 1 c? , 1 ? . JEx/>. 56- 

 66 millim. 



7277. Ephesia helena. (Plate CC. fig. 13.) 



Catocala helena, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1856, i-i. pi. i. f. 8, & 1857, iv. p. 378 ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 249. 



$ . Head and thorax grey mixed with broAvn and black ; palpi 

 brownish white at base ; frons with lateral black bars ; teguloe with 

 black medial line ; pectus brownish grey ; tarsi black with pale 

 rings ; abdomen fulvous yellow irrorated with fuscous, the ventral 

 surface brownish white. .Fore wing grey suffused in parts with 

 browni and irrorated with black ; subbasal line black, sinuous, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, black, sinuous, 

 oblique to submedian fold and incurved at vein 1, some black on it 

 below the cell and some whitish beyond it in and below the cell ; 

 reniform defined by blackish and with blackish centre, an oblique 

 black bar above it from costa ; an oblique elliptical spot defined by 



